Previously Held NEC BT-9502-Instructor
NC-9502-Instructor
Service Years
1981 - 1995
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Operation Desert Storm
Cold War
Decommissioning
Great Lakes
Order of the Spanish Main
Panama Canal
Persian Excursion
Plank Owner
Sailor of the Quarter
Suez Canal
Official Badges
Unofficial Badges
Operation Provide Promise (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
From Month/Year
July / 1992
To Month/Year
January / 1996
Description Operation Provide Promise was a humanitarian relief operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Yugoslav Wars, from 2 July 1992, to 9 January 1996, which made it the longest running humanitarian airlift in history.
By the end of the operation, aircraft from 21 countries had flown 12,886 sorties into Sarajevo, delivering 159,622 tons of food, medicine, and supplies and evacuating over 1,300 wounded people. The US flew 3,951 C-130, 236 C-141, and 10 C-17 airland sorties (delivering 62,801.5 tons), as well as 2,222 C-130 air-drop sorties.